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And now Anthropic's CEO "We must slow the pace" of AI development.
To make a plea for slowing development, while being ideally placed to do exactly that, is to produce in us the notion that development cannot be stopped, that technological development is out of control. This is part of the 'Inevitablism' delusion big tech actively propagates.
Like arsonists petitioning for stronger protections against the 'phenomena' of arsony.
It is a patronising ploy, social engineering.
They mock us.
@JulianOliver That's been going on since the first transistor was made. Which has been growing in efficiency and decreasing in size and it's been doing that exponentially.
@glitterbean And at no point was it 'inevitable'.
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I have a theory that maybe the AI frontier labs want to slow down because its actually impossible for them to go any faster.
They might have hit a limit, either in the performance of the model or in their costs. And to save face, they can just say they are *intentionally* slowing down instead of admitting that they are getting diminishing returns on their investments.
It's like cop assisted suicide fr
I've been donating to stopai, boycotting all ai, and became a Unitarian Universalist (if anything legal comes up).
@mishandlingboners @Digitaldakini Great to read. And yep, not using AI is #1. To reduce demand is quite literally disempower. These giants are nothing without an audience generating usage statistics that stimulate investment, not to mention license fees for the non-free tiers, and training data otherwise (as with OpenAI's 'free' offerings, but probably all of them in reality).
@JulianOliver the psychopath lending a hand with the investigation because they're drawn to the spotlight therein.
@JulianOliver "please please please capture us with regulations! You can trust us to to the right thing, but only if everyone else is locked out of trying"
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an exit strategy to get by without being tarred and feathered once the veil shall fall.